On Wed, 22 Jan 2025, 01:28 Bishnu Kumar Sharma, < bksha...@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
> Dear Jack, > Thank you for your valuable suggestions. The model is bigger than the > spectrometer design of the RFSOC4x2 tutorial design. When I continuously > run that bit code a few times 4x2 board, I can feel the board getting hot. > - I will think about putting bigger heat sink. > - As of now, I tested the smaller design multiple times and the board is > working very well. I can feel that the board is relatively very cooler than > running that big design. > - Is a 4x2 board not that reliable? I checked the top utilization report > from Vivado compiler, the design doesn't occupy 100% resources. > I don't think it is a reliability problem, but rather the core voltage power supply is relatively weak compared to what the FPGA is capable of drawing. Also, the heat sinking of the FPGA isn't really suitable for big designs. I suspect both of these decisions are somewhat deliberate on xilinx's part, to avoid the board eating into the markets of more expensive rfsoc boards provided by other vendors. For the ZCU this script will report temperature and voltage rail levels https://github.com/realtimeradio/souk-firmware/blob/main/software/rfsoc_scripts/get_sensors.py . It uses the RFSoC on chip SYSMON core so should work on all RFSoC platforms. The current measurements of the other script unfortunately only work on the 4x2, which has dedicated current monitoring hardware (I love RealDigital for that). I don't know if the ZCU216 has any such monitoring, but if it does I unfortunately don't have a script for it. Cheers Thank you very much for the Python script. > I am using the ZCU216 board also, and I haven't faced this issue so far. > Do you have a Python script for the zcu216 board to check power and > temperature? > I ran this script and got the following results. > casper@localhost:/lib/firmware/rfsoc4x2$ python3 get_power_sensors.py > VCC_0V85: 0.88 Volt, 3.24 Amp (8% max) > VCC_3V3: 3.33 Volt, 0.44 Amp (7% max) > VCC_1V8: 1.82 Volt, 0.61 Amp (10% max) > SYZYGY_VIO_BUS: 3.38 Volt, 0.01 Amp (0% max) > VDAC_AVCC_0V925: 0.96 Volt, 0.00 Amp (0% max) > VDAC_AVCC_AUX_1V8: 1.82 Volt, 0.00 Amp (0% max) > VDAC_AVTT_2V5: 2.53 Volt, 0.01 Amp (0% max) > VADC_AVCC_0V925: 0.95 Volt, 1.52 Amp (50% max) > VADC_AVCC_AUX_1V8: 1.82 Volt, 1.12 Amp (55% max) > Thank you so much. > Best Regards > Bishnu Sharma > Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics > Academia Sinica > > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM Jack Hickish <jackhick...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Bishnu, >> >> Is your design "big"? I have found it easy to overwhelm the power >> supplies of the 4x2 with a large design, at which point they automatically >> shut down, and the board becomes unresponsive to both ping and casperfpga >> commands. >> If I remember correctly, if this happens there are some error LEDs on the >> board which will light up. >> I've also found that putting a bigger heatsink on the board can buy a >> little more margin. >> >> Assuming your board's OS has the appropriate I2C drivers, if your issue >> is power related, you may find this script useful - >> https://github.com/realtimeradio/souk-firmware/blob/main/software/rfsoc_scripts/get_power_sensors.py >> If you run it on the board, it will report the current drawn on each of >> the power rails.in my experience, the board will shut down once 0V85 >> current draw gets near 100%. >> >> If you are only running small firmware, then I suspect your issue is >> something else. >> >> Cheers >> Jack >> >> On Tue, 21 Jan 2025, 06:41 Bishnu Kumar Sharma, < >> bksha...@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw> wrote: >> >>> Dear Casperites, >>> I hope you are doing well. I have faced a little bit strange situation >>> when I use an FPGA 4x2 board to run bitstream. Sometimes when I run >>> bitstream in a virtual environment, programming gets stuck and reports >>> errors. like: >>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>> File "rfsoc_4x2_corr.py", line 123, in <module> >>> fpga.upload_to_ram_and_program(bitstream) >>> File >>> "/home/bishnu/Desktop/m_work/casper_venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/casperfpga/casperfpga.py", >>> line 348, in upload_to_ram_and_program >>> rv = self.transport.upload_to_ram_and_program( >>> File >>> "/home/bishnu/Desktop/m_work/casper_venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/casperfpga/transport_katcp.py", >>> line 654, in upload_to_ram_and_program >>> raise RuntimeError('%s: no programming informs yet. ' >>> RuntimeError: 192.168.50.198: no programming informs yet. Odd? >>> I already upload the bitstream with the proper virtual environment. >>> When I power on the FPGA, it works for a while and after running some >>> bitstream file, it >>> happens. I even checked the ping for the network, it doesn't show the >>> flow of the network. >>> I have also attached some of the screenshots for reference. 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